Australia’s Governing Party Trails in Polling a Week from Vote
Voters at a pre-polling centre in Melbourne on May 9.
Photographer: William West/AFP/Getty Images
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Australia’s center-right Liberal National coalition government is still trailing the opposition in polling as the federal election campaign entered its final week.
The center-left Labor Party continued to lead in the primary vote even as it slipped by one point to 38% against the government’s unchanged 35%, a new opinion survey by Newspoll published by The Australian newspaper on Saturday showed. Labor still enjoyed a steady and comfortable lead of 54% to 46% in the two-party-preferred vote.